R help - Jun 2005 - Hclust question

Hey,

I am running hclust on several different distance matrices and I have a 
question thats more about labeling. I've been looking for a way to label 
the edge values on the graph with their distances between them. I've 
been looking through the documentation and I haven't found anything yet. 
Anyone know if there is a way to plot 'hclust' graphs with such edge 
values? Or convert it to another type that can have its edge values labeled?

And to clarify what I mean by edge values, I have two pictures 
describing what I mean. First, 
http://clavius.bc.edu/~schulerm/images/test.gif [3.8k] is what I 
currently have. What I'm looking for is something similar to this: 
http://clavius.bc.edu/~schulerm/images/test2.gif [5.1k]. I arbitrarily 
put in values on the edges with the Gimp but I'm looking for some way to 
do that on my plots of 'hclust'.

Thanks in advance
Mike Schuler

>>>>> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:22:52 -0400,
>>>>> Mike Schuler (MS) wrote:
  > Hey,
  > I am running hclust on several different distance matrices and I have a 
  > question thats more about labeling. I've been looking for a way to
label
  > the edge values on the graph with their distances between them. I've 
  > been looking through the documentation and I haven't found anything
yet.
  > Anyone know if there is a way to plot 'hclust' graphs with such
edge
  > values? Or convert it to another type that can have its edge values
labeled?

  > And to clarify what I mean by edge values, I have two pictures 
  > describing what I mean. First, 
  > http://clavius.bc.edu/~schulerm/images/test.gif [3.8k] is what I 
  > currently have. What I'm looking for is something similar to this: 
  > http://clavius.bc.edu/~schulerm/images/test2.gif [5.1k]. I arbitrarily 
  > put in values on the edges with the Gimp but I'm looking for some way
to
  > do that on my plots of 'hclust'.

help(dendrogram)
example(dendrogram)

should give you a start.

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